WOW. Well worth your purchase!!

Wonderful picture, Susan..

Hi (again) alisande,

Nice job!

Your Dad isn't nearly as red-faced as before ... (you, either).

Neither of you embarrass easily, do you?

ole joyfuelled

That's fantastic! Well worth the purchase. You must be very excited with the results.

WOW! Looks like you're a quick study. Nice photo and so well worth saving. I can see you are going to have a lot of fun with your new purchase.

great work! You will soon be a pro at it. That is impressive.

Susan, that is GREAT!

Thanks, everyone! Yes, it's definitely fun. Another pleasurable distraction from housework, I'm afraid. :-)

It looks perfect, even you and your dad's great tans are visible.

That is amazing! What a wonderful thing that you are able to fix them!

Amazing. I really need to learn Photoshop.

Wow! Great job! I'm jealous of your new skill!

Great job Susan! I'm not sure the picture could get any better!

Great job, in my opinion. Just out of curiosity, how long did it take to get from before to after?

Shirley

Oh, that is very nice. Gadget's question was what I wanted to ask also. How long did it take?

Wow. How exciting to be able to save those pictures. Is it a lot of work? tedious? I am so impressed that you are teaching yourself.

Wonderful!!!!
What slide negative scanner do you use?

That is definitely impressive. Maybe you could run a business on the side and earn some money with this skill!

Great job!!!!

Great job Susan. Fun and so rewarding! I love photo restoration when I have the time to commit to it. Now I know who to offload my work to. :-)

Jodi-

Gasp!

Pretty good! :0)

Amazing show us more !!!

Thanks, all!! Sherrmann, I love your gasp. LOL

Janie, I use a big Canon Canoscan 9950F, which I'm sorry to say is no longer manufactured. A Canon rep told me it's the last scanner that can handle different sizes of negatives. I hope mine lasts a good long time. So far I've scanned at least 500 of my father's negatives, one at a time, and now I'm also working on the slides.

As for how long the above edits took, it's hard to say. I should time it one of these days. I get in a zone when I'm working on a photo--similar to the state one can get in when painting or doing another creative activity. I really lose track of time as I sit here staring at an image and trying this or that.

Some might think of the work as tedious, but I usually enjoy it. I enjoy it best if I'm fond of the picture. If I had to guess, I'd say the above took me about a half-hour. Or maybe 20 minutes. Or maybe 40. :-)

Thanks again for letting me share.

That's amazing. I'm going to urge you to back up the second you finish each restoration. Storing on an online account might also be prudent.

Good advice, Gardenspice--and I can use the reminder, thanks!

That is just wonderful that you are able to salvage and save those slides. I always love seeing your father's photographs and I know he would be so pleased and proud of you for saving them. To have such a wonderful record of times past and family members....you are very, very fortunate. Most of us have nothing that even comes close to the wonderful archive that you have.

Susan, absolutely fabulous. I, too, have several scanned slides and many look like your before picture. I notice that the book you reference is several years old - do you think it'll still be fine even though I'll need to purchase Photoshop (in other words, a version of Photoshop that might not've been out when the book was written)?

I WANT THIS!!!

Thanks, Marilyn! I agree--I'm very lucky.

Suzieque, the book uses both the full-featured Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. I have Elements 8, which is two years old. The Elements version in the book is older, but the main difference is that the tools may be placed in different order on the Elements tool bar. They work the same way.

So far the advice in the book has worked for me. I haven't tried everything in the whole book yet, but the used price wasn't much of an investment. If you check Amazon, you might find a comparable book published more recently.

Let us know how you make out.

What a fantastic end product, alisande. I want to thank you for posting this. Why, because I have just received my photo scanner and know I will have problems such as you had. Without your timely message, I would not have known where to start with the problems. I just ordered the book.

Again, thank you so much for posting this.

I'm glad to hear that, WC! Connections like this are one of the best parts of sharing. Be sure to let us see some of the results!

I wanted to mention the new updated free GIMP is an excellent program that does so much stuff that the pay for programs do. It used to be pretty hard to learn but they have really made some changes for the better so it is easier and free is always good LOL.
GIMP

And there are all kinds of GIMP tutorials on YouTube.

Jodi-

GIMP.......couldn't they have come up with a better name? :-)

It stands for GNU image manipulation program so Gimp is actually a better name lol